Ah yes, the famously non-cruel crown of Castile whose religious ceremonies involved burning people alive.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1010951151418667008 …
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those were also extremely bad! and the spanish empire in the americas was heinous! I do not endorse these things! arglebargle
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That’s good. Earlier I saw a thread by a guy called Tradical and his fans *do*.
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I just feel there is a reluctance to admit the quantity of human sacrifice that went on in civilizations that still exist. People even softball Roman human sacrifice, even though there’s a massive famous book about it (the golden bough).
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Yeah, I think that's probably roughly correct Probably a good part of the horror people feel about Aztec / Incan systems is from their novelty rather than their objective brutality, I'd cop to that in myself on reflection
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